Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove.

New American Standard Bible

How beautiful you are, my darling,
How beautiful you are!
Your eyes are like doves.”

King James Version

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.

Holman Bible

M How beautiful you are, my darling.
How very beautiful!
Your eyes are doves.

International Standard Version

Look at you! You are beautiful, my darling. Look at you! You are so beautiful. Your eyes are doves.

A Conservative Version

Behold, thou are fair, my love, behold thou are fair. Thine eyes are doves.

American Standard Version

Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold thou art fair; Thine eyes are as doves.

Amplified

(The Bridegroom)
“Behold, how beautiful you are, my darling,
Behold, how beautiful you are!
Your eyes are dove’s eyes.”

Darby Translation

Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold, thou art fair: thine eyes are doves.

Julia Smith Translation

Behold thee fair, my friend; behold thee beautiful; thine eyes are doves'.

King James 2000

Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have doves' eyes.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Look! You [are] beautiful, my beloved. Look! You [are] beautiful; your eyes [are] doves.

Modern King James verseion

Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; you have doves' eyes.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O how fair art thou, my love, how fair art thou? Thou hast doves' eyes.

NET Bible

The Lover to His Beloved: Oh, how beautiful you are, my beloved! Oh, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves!

New Heart English Bible

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves.

The Emphasized Bible

HELo! thou art beautiful my fair one, lo! thou art beautiful, Thine eyes, are doves!

Webster

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.

World English Bible

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves. Beloved

Youngs Literal Translation

Lo, thou art fair, my friend, Lo, thou art fair, thine eyes are doves!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Behold, thou art fair
יפה 
Yapheh 
Usage: 41

my love
רעיה 
Ra`yah 
Usage: 9

behold, thou art fair
יפה 
Yapheh 
Usage: 41

thou hast doves'
יונה 
Yownah 
Usage: 31

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Smith

Verse Info

Context Readings

Mutual Admiration

14 My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi. 15 See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove. 16 See, you are fair, my loved one, and a pleasure; our bed is green.

Cross References

Song of Songs 4:1

See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove; your hair is as a flock of goats, which take their rest on the side of Gilead.

Song of Songs 5:12

His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the water streams, washed with milk, and rightly placed.

Song of Songs 4:7

You are all fair, my love; there is no mark on you.

Song of Songs 1:8

If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.

Song of Songs 2:10

My loved one said to me, Get up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

Song of Songs 2:13

The fig-tree puts out her green fruit and the vines with their young fruit give a good smell. Get up from your bed, my beautiful one, and come away.

Song of Songs 4:10

How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

Song of Songs 5:2

I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

Song of Songs 6:4

You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags.

Song of Songs 7:6

How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.

Malachi 2:14

But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.

2 Corinthians 11:2-3

For I have a very great care for you: because you have been married by me to one husband, and it is my desire to give you completely holy to Christ.

Ephesians 1:17-18

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

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